“Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.”

My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.

When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

Love me like you’ll never see me again.

Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

From the beginning, I’ve had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say – and I’ve learnt that they’re meaningless, and they’re mostly inaccurate. So I don’t worry about it, because there’s nothin’ for me to deal with.

It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.

I’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.

A change of work is the best rest.

Supporting women’s and girls organisations is the single greatest hope we have for worldwide transformative change.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

We change the world with one random act of kindness at a time.

Japan will change. Let’s create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world

I’m reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes.

The good times and the bad times both will pass.